It’s 10:00 PM, you’ve got 2 assignments due tomorrow, a quiz the next day, and an exam the day after that. You haven’t eaten dinner yet, and you haven’t started either assignment. You think to yourself, “if I could just clear this to-do list, I […]
Category: Launch Your Career
Too Much Coverage
As we gear up for a new semester, teachers and students alike hope that this will be the best semester ever. We’ve got some work to do, or we will find ourselves in the same place as last semester: busy working without learning, stressed, firefighting, […]
New Semester Resolutions
Think back to the end of last semester. How did that go for you? How much sleep did you lose preparing for exams? Were you overwhelmed with coursework and study that needed doing? Did you simultaneously have several projects and several exams to prep for? […]
YOUtopia
The factory is empty. Schools make factory workers. Now what?
Leadership truths are teaching truths
I’ve been reading Living Forward by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy, and in the last chapter they share three truths about life and leadership: “Self-leadership always precedes team leadership. Leaders… that make the greatest difference are highly self aware and well rounded…they live lives that are […]
Withdrawal
Today is an odd day for me. I am withdrawing from two “opportunities.” One is a paper for a conference, the other is a job application. The paper represents the typical academic currency, keeps the “publish or perish” ledger in the black. The job represents […]
Make Some Noise: Why You Must Use Social Media to Reach Your Goals
What is it that makes you an excellent candidate for that dream job? Deep inside you are certain that this is the fit for you. But does the interviewer sitting across the table know it too? This situation feels very familiar to me, having been […]
5 Painful Mistakes New Bloggers Make
Blogging can feel like a chore. Writing is heavy mental labor, and we want to see a reward for our efforts. Unfortunately, most new bloggers begin with the same five engagement-limiting mistakes. I’m a long blogger. My friends are long bloggers. My older posts were […]
Iterate and Grow
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. – George S. Patton We iterate and grow, not prepare and then go. We didn’t forbid you from speaking until you knew fluent, Shakespeare-level English. Learning is a continuum. Not […]
Perfection, Failure, and Experimenting
Schools have spent the years teaching you NOT to experiment. Think about it. The system rewards you for getting good grades. But we all have had the experience of torpedoing our grades due to ONE BAD DAY. You can be on it, “perfect” for an […]
